Program Overview
Are you ready to combine your creative vision with a passion for storytelling through film and television? Do you have a drive to communicate ideas on screen? Asbury’s highly acclaimed Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Film & Television Production, a terminal degree, is designed to equip you for every area of this industry, from a practical hands-on level to a high-level leader, expert storyteller or educator.
Our online, 42-credit hour MFA is taught by experts with decades of experience who know how to navigate this field — because they’ve done it — and teach in our program because they care about your success, your faith, and the course of this industry.
The M.F.A. in Film & TV Production is a 42-credit hour program. In a flexible online format, students can pursue their coursework at different rates. If you’re a full-time student, it’s possible to complete the program in two years. Other students, especially those with families and professional obligations, choose to spread the program out over three years. And up to 3 hours of credit for professional experience may be considered in place of a specific course.
This degree has prerequisites of courses or prior experience in Audio Production, Television Production and Single Camera Production.
Degree requirements to graduate with a Master of Fine Art’s in Film & TV Production include:
Review complete degree requirements for Asbury’s M.F.A. in Film & TV Production
The film and television industries are worth billions of dollars, and your input as a professional level, faith-filled practitioner can change lives and help set the course for this culture-shaping trade.
Asbury’s Film & TV Production program is paired with one of the nation’s top media communication programs, with graduates who have been involved in 450 nationally distributed films, and over 700 different television series. Film & TV Production master’s students can take any of these highly sought after media courses or cross over into dynamic business courses as electives to complement their master’s coursework.
We seek to glorify Christ, the Master Storyteller, by helping you merge your creative spirit with your work.
Our +Grad program allows you to finish an undergraduate degree, then earn a master’s degree with significant time and cost savings.
"Asbury helped me in my career of 30-plus years by elevating my professional expertise, insight, and film knowledge to a new level. I am blessed to be a part of the marketing team at Independence Bank in Owensboro, Ky., where we serve more than 450 employees and nearly 40,000 customers. With an MFA from Asbury, I continue to ask: How can I best tell this story in a way that honors His story?"
An M.F.A. in Film/TV Production is designed for recent media graduates who want to earn a leg up in their career or for working film and television professionals who are ready to take their work to the next level. With this degree, you could expect to work as:
Students have options to get Steadicam certified or even scuba certified in Underwater Cinematography.
Asbury is fortunate to have a wealth of expertise across a huge range of film, television, news and entertainment media. More important than their expert-level industry know-how is their dedication to our students and faithfulness to God. Whether it’s Warner Bros. Features, popular Christian bands, the Olympics, Act One Screenwriter’s Program, NBC, Disney, CNN, Sports Illustrated, Lionsgate, MGM, Great American Pure Flix, Focus on the Family, and many others — you are in good hands with our knowledgeable and well-connected faculty.
MFA Film & TV Production alum Matthew Webb ’21 recently received the River Bend Film Festival: Best Feature Length Screenplay award for his film, A Carpenter’s Prayer, which released this summer to 67 theaters in 21 states. Watch the trailer here. As writer, director, and producer, he developed the story as part of his master’s thesis project at Asbury.
Matthew shares: “I brought the story to the attention of my mentor, Sean Gaffney, who worked with me over two years to shape the story into a script that would become the film. We are now finishing a nationwide theatrical run and launching it on Up Faith and Family as well as many streaming platforms for rental or purchase (Apple TV, Dish, DirectTV, Amazon, Vudu, Fandango, etc.).”
Matthew serves as assistant professor of film production at Huntington University. His producing credits include Praying the Hours (2021) and his feature documentary Generation Z (2022). Other credits include 1st Assistant Director on Not That Funny (2012) and the award-winning short, Weathered (2010), which he wrote, produced and co-directed.
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